When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright.

Some days, Kaylin fervently wished that she had already passed Adult 101 and could get on with being the person she wanted to be.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

What you think about you bring about.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.